 | Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 pages
...mind, one heart devoted That wisely doating asked not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. TO A LOFTY BEAUTY FROM HER POOR KINSMAN. if]... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1886 - 342 pages
...mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, asked not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure. The hills sleep on in their eternity. > ~\ T 7"HAT was't awakened first the untried... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1888 - 272 pages
...mind, one heart devoted That wisely doating asked not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. TO A LOFTY BEAUTY FROM HER POOR KINSMAN. [[AIR... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1888 - 272 pages
...mind, one heart devoted That wisely doating asked not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. TO A LOFTY BEAUTY FROM HER POOR KINSMAN. ;]AIR... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1888 - 272 pages
...wisely doating asked not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy which knowing kills. But now I find hpw dear thou wert to me ; That man is more than half...ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. TO A LOFTY BEAUTY FROM HER POOR KINSMAN. [|AIR... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 482 pages
...mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find, how dear thou wert...ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity.' II. TO THE SAME. ' In the great city we are... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...heart devoted,— That, wisely doting, asked not why it doted, — And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...ear can measure : And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. n. To THE SAME. "In the great city we are met... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Landscape in literature - 1897 - 326 pages
...— That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. Hut now I find, how dear thou wert to me, That man is...can measure : — And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. NOVEMBER The mellow year is hasting to its... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - Fate and fatalism - 1898 - 384 pages
...Maleine there was the same curious, wandering sense of, and search for, a vague and mystic beauty : " That fair beauty which no eye can see, Of that sweet music which no ear can measure." In a little poem of his, Et s'il revenait, the last words of a dying girl, forsaken by her lover, who... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doting, ask'd not why it doted, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...ear can measure; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. THOMAS HOOD 647. Autumn 1798-1845 T SAW old... | |
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And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find, how dear thou wert to me ; That man is more than half of nature's treasure, Of that fair Beauty which no eye can see, Of that sweet music which no ear can measure ; And now the streams may... 
